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Article: A man for all nations: "a big problem on the reservation is a lack of understanding about what a co-op is. People need to understand that the Glacier Electric Cooperative is owned by the people and it serves the people.".(Cover Story)
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- Bulletin (Northwest Public Power Association)
- Article date:
- August 1, 2005
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Tom Blackweasel stands astride many worlds. As a Blackfeet tribal elder, he mentors troubled youngsters as well as serving older tribe members.
As a Blackfeet speaker and orthographer, he works with other language experts in the States and Canada to invent a written language to record his nation's spoken tongue for posterity.
Blackweasel, 69, speaks in the voice of an ambassador, mildly, in careful, measured words, his voice the golden dulcet tones of a National Public Radio announcer. In fact, he is a narrator in a documentary, "Two Worlds at Two Medicine". The film tells the Indian point of view of the 1806 encounter between the Meriwether Lewis party ...